preadolescent "tortures"

[Wilson Gray]

"Demonstrated," you say, Joel? I'd think that the operative verb would
be "ascertained." Me myself, "I lke a girl with a big butt," as
Garrett Morris once succinctly expressed it during an SNL skit.

I remember the Indian burn, keep-away, and (k)nucks, but not the other
games. How about pop-the-whip? That sometimes hurt three boys or more
at the same time.

-Wilson

On 10/1/06, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> At 10/1/2006 12:04 AM, Grant Barrett wrote:
> >"Titty twisters" were big, too. Just a big twist of someone else's
> >nipple when they weren't expecting it. Guys only, of course, because
> >girls' breasts were sacred territory.
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> Instead, the adolescents of my time demonstrated whether the
> pubescent girls could bring their elbows to touch behind their backs.
>
> Joel
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